"Gutsy Move" -- The Discovery Files
"Gutsy Move" -- The Discovery Files
MIT engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, quickly swells to the size of a ping-pong ball. The soft, squishy device -- big enough to stay in the stomach for an extended period of time -- could potentially track ulcers, cancers and other gastrointestinal conditions over the long term.
Published February 14, 2019 at 10:30AM
MIT engineers have designed an ingestible, Jell-O-like pill that, upon reaching the stomach, quickly swells to the size of a ping-pong ball. The soft, squishy device -- big enough to stay in the stomach for an extended period of time -- could potentially track ulcers, cancers and other gastrointestinal conditions over the long term.
Published February 14, 2019 at 10:30AM
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